Sentence examples for may face generic from inspiring English sources

Wyeth also may face generic competition this year to its most popular drug, the antidepressant Effexor, driving earnings down further.

Claritin, which had $3.2 billion in sales in 2001, may face generic competition by the end of the year.

Pfizer may face generic competition to its top-selling drug Lipitor a year earlier than analysts expected after a federal appeals court invalidated one of the company's patents.

Schering-Plough, which is based in Kenilworth, N.J., is looking for new products to help replace sales of Claritin, which may face generic rivals as early as December.

Relations between the big firms selling branded drugs and the generics industry are often frosty, especially now that at least $9 billion-worth of patented drugs may face generic competition in America this year and several landmark patent challenges are before the courts.

Cephalon is hoping to use Nuvigil as a revenue replacement for Provigil, a similar drug that may face generic competition as early as 2012.

Its huge-selling thyroid drug, Synthroid, may soon face generic competition.

But Provigil will face generic competition in April 2012 under terms of an agreement Cephalon made with several generic drug manufacturers.

Five of its six leading products face generic competition in the next four years.

With the six-month extension, the drug would face generic competition in early 2003.

Glucophage is expected to face generic competition as early as next year.